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[kyburg]

ingrid_m on surviving four more years of Bush:

If I can survive eight years of Ronnie Reagan, a feeble-minded, nuclear-missle-loving evil asshole if there ever was one -- a guy who condemned millions of gays to death and virtual leper-hood through refusal to fund any type of AIDS research, forget about letting them marry, with his power-mad wife and psychotic cabinet at his side I can survive this feeble-minded monkey and his cabinet of power-mad incompetents for another four.

Easy as pie.

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Yup. That's exactly it. I did it; I even got myself through college while that guy cut the only assistance I had to attend school - my father's Social Security pension for dependent children. Reagan cut my last year of it. "You don't need that, darling. Just say no."

So I worked three jobs and graduated in debt and 95 lbs., dripping wet. Oh, and with a sub-par GPA. Gee, how did that happen? I'd been dean's list the quarters before....

Who put Saddam Hussein into power? You got it.

Oh, I can survive this. You'd better believe it.

Another question - with all these "moral" issues voted on, which really are do-nothings if you think about it - if you ever had to enforce any of them, how could you do that without growing government all out of gianamous proportion to the tax base and deficit that already exists - and not raise taxes?

We're just going to devalue the dollar further by printing more?

Or are we just selling our country out in bonds to whomever wants to buy them?

That'll come up in the next four years. You betcha.

Comments

[moonwalker.livejournal.com]

Same situation here about father's Social Security cut just before I entered college. There was a loophole that you could still get it for a few years if you entered college full time by a certain date... many of us in our senior year of high school started college early. I was a full time h.s. student and a full time college student at the same time, and made both the honor roll and the dean's list.

But damn that Reagan for making me do that.

Mary MMM

[snackpants.livejournal.com]

*looks out the window* Hmmm Kerry conceded, and the world didn't end... You know what, if Kerry had won, it wouldn't have ended either.

What does worry me, is the vote to limit marriage... that is really going to force some people to make some very vocal stands, and I have a feeling its going to be just as polarizing as Abortion... and my party already hates me for being Pro-Choice... ugh.

*begins waving his 'moderate' flag*

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I was already in - and one year to go - and whammo. All done! No more!

Such compassion.

[bluemoonpnw.livejournal.com]

'If I can survive eight years of Ronnie Reagan, a feeble-minded, nuclear-missle-loving evil asshole if there ever was one -- a guy who condemned millions of gays to death and virtual leper-hood through refusal to fund any type of AIDS research, forget about letting them marry, with his power-mad wife and psychotic cabinet at his side I can survive this feeble-minded monkey and his cabinet of power-mad incompetents for another four'

This almost cheers me up.
I'm just not sure I want to simply survive anymore.
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[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Come over here and sit by me. You know I love you.

Welcome, fellow moderate. Everyone hates you. Get used to it.

Gay marriage - good grief. Can we waste more time and money on a more NON ISSUE? *sighs* Anyone who has seen what damage marriage, divorce and remarriage done between heterosexuals - and acknowledges it - does to children and everyone involved, really wouldn't be wasting their time with whether gays can or can't marry. You'd be too busy trying to deal with the real problems.

But, no. Wave that banner and scare people crapless -

I swear, do some people just need something/someone to hate as a daily nutritional requirement or something?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

You can't win, you can't break even and they won't let you quit the game.

Goes for all of us. Chin up!

[miwasatoshi.livejournal.com]

Can we waste more time and money on a more NON ISSUE?

Amen.

[musicalchaos.livejournal.com]

Then can I become an evil nasty bastard and completely betray my nature by revelling in the suffing of others as I attempt to bring them down with me?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Indulge in little crack fantasies all you like; in the end, you get what you give. Your choice.

[musicalchaos.livejournal.com]

Ya I know... I'm more likely to simply sit and stew in my own bitterness for the next four years, only leaving if forced to that. Quite frankly, I'm enough of a homebody, and too damn comfortable to leave on a whim, no matter how pissed I am about all this, and I'm not given to outbursts that are more than vocal... Not to say I would be crying in my rootbeer if hell broke loose for the admin.

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

Man, I know what you mean about the Reagan years - I was lucky, I wasn't depending on Reagan's "generosity" to get through school, but he was cutting funds to the schools too, so I got hit that way.

I'm just hoping that idiot manages to screw up sufficiently to knock some sense into the fundamentalists / ultra-conservatives that are his party's main support - because otherwise the next president will be from right out of the same mold as GWB: sanctimonious, pretentiously religious, and with utter contempt for the American people.

[musicalchaos.livejournal.com]

Oh, and just as a side note, that comment was and is meant as sarcasm. I guilt too much to try and do anything to harm others wantonly. I just want to see them out of office and our country actually starting to pull itself back together. *sigh* I just don't see that happening for a long while... I just wish that the anger and hate would stop, that the country could come together somehow, yet the most I can do is try to reign myself in and stop from causing anymore devisiveness myself... *sigh* Curse this mentality that seems to have possessed the whole country of "If I can't have my way, then no one can have anything at all" and I'm sick to my stomach that I'm just making it worse... oigh... I need, really need to get ahold of myself. *grump*